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  1. Joanne Harris _ Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

    There's something very comforting about the ritual of jam-making. It speaks of cellars filled with preserves; of neat rows of jars on pantry shelves. It speaks of winter mornings and bowls of , with thick slices of good fresh bread and last year's peach jam, like a promise of sunshine at the darkest point of the year. It speaks of four stone walls, a roof, and of seasons that turn in the same place, in the same way, year after year, with sweet familiarity. It is the taste of home.
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  2. Joanne Harris _ Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

    But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?
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  3. Joanne Harris _ Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

    All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper - the weight of a human heart.
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  4. Joanne Harris _ Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

    Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent."
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  5. Joanne Harris _ Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

    Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.
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